—and we've said that Thursday is our regularly scheduled meeting. We've said that. We're open to that issue. I've raised a number of concerns about questions that might be allowed or disallowed, which I would like to hear you specifically come back on, Mr. Chair. But at the same time, the reason why this is being pushed for tomorrow is the Conservatives' incredible concern about the reaction from British Columbians to ramming through the pipeline. I think this probably sends the clearest message yet, Mr. Chair, that the decision tonight will be against British Columbians, because that is why the Conservatives are scrambling to throw in something, anything, to distract from what is going to be a pretty substantive reaction.
It's good to know now what the game plan is. The game plan is to try to detract from an issue that is going to cost the Conservatives 20 seats in British Columbia in the next election.
Mr. Chair, I will come back to the issue of questions being allowed: the Board of Internal Economy and its move to a partisan process; the Speaker's ruling rendering 56.1, the dirty trick that started this process in the procedure and House affairs committee, inadmissible; the leaks that the deputy law clerk very clearly warned us against and asked the committee to take appropriate precautions for; and his cautions about the study itself, cautions about this not fitting within the mandate of the committee. Those are four areas that we want to be asking questions on. Do we have your assurance that we will be able to ask questions in those areas?